Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Asking for the Bread of Tomorrow
I read a great post by Aaron Eby of First Fruits of Zion entitled the Midnight Visitor. In that post Aaron deals with a more correct understanding of the Lord’s prayer found in both Matthew 6 and Luke 11. Specifically, he deals with the word translated as daily in the phrase “our daily bread”. The…
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Mindfulness aka Meditation- Biblical or Un-Biblical?
The popularity of “mindfulness”, today’s euphemistic term for meditation, is growing in the United States among corporate executives, Oprah, the US Congress and even our school children. That’s right our children are being taught how to meditate. This schoolroom effort is being advanced by people such as Goldie Hawn. She started a program named MindUp…
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Ash Wednesday, Christian or Pagan
Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Lent season observed in the Catholic and a few Protestant traditions. But is this day or this season a Christian or even a biblical holiday? Lent, the forty day period before Easter Sunday is not a biblical period commanded by God to observe. Lent was really…
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Is Fat Tuesday Anti- Christian?
Fat Tuesday is a time of great self indulgence before a time of self denial. Mardi Gras in French, is celebrated from Epiphany to Ash Wednesday and in many cultures the three days leading up to Ash Wednesday. Popular traditions for this time are to wear costumes, consume fatty foods and lots of it, consume…
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Does the Bible Condone Slavery?
It is one of several arguments against the bible, slavery. The text of this week’s scripture reading is Exodus 21:1-24:18 and it lists the conditions under which slavery operates. From a cursory reading it would appear that the Lord is sanctioning slavery to the newly freed slaves of Egypt. Taken out of its historical and…
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People of the Way, An Overview
I wanted to begin refocusing the goal of this website toward biblical living. Really, a practical understanding of how to live this life we have committed ourselves to live. There is so much confusion out there about what it means to live according to God’s standard. What I am attempting to do here is lay…
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